Parking Non-Stop
played at Theatr Gwynedd, Bangor on Monday 1st March 2004. The event was
entitled "New Word Order" and involved a further multi
media collaborationwith Ian Davidson, following on from the Holyhead
event. The evening included individual and collaborative poetry
from Ian Davidson and Zoë
as well as Zoë
and Ian's films, soundtracked by live and pre-recorded music and sound
design from Parking Non-Stop. Before the performance, members of Parking
Non-Stop mingled with the audience, recording their conversations. The
resulting recordings were then used as an integral element of the performance.

In what seemed
like a hectic touring schedule by their standards, Parking Non-Stop took
part in the 6th Annual Sub Voicive Colloquium "Perhaps Trespass"
at Camden People's Theatre in North London. They performed an extended
version of the "New Word Order" suite they had put together
for the Theatr Gwynedd show 2 weeks previously.

The afternoon
performance again featured collaborative poetry from Ian Davidson and
Zoë as well as Zoë and Ian's films with live and pre-recorded music and sound design from
Parking Non-Stop. Much of the sound was generated or manipulated by Dewi
and Alan using a Kaos Pad that Dewi bought just down the road from the
venue half an hour before the performance and which neither member had
ever used before going on stage.

Parking Non-Stop
were invited by legendary Berlin experimentalists Einstürzende Neubauten
to support them in Dublin on Sunday 4th April (the numerically significant
04/04/04). It was the first time either group had performed in Ireland.

A further
performance of the New Word Order collaboration with Ian Davidson took
place at the unlikely location of Wrexham's College of Nursing, Midwifery
and Health Studies, much to the bemusement of a small audience expecting
a sedate evening of poetry.

In keeping
with their Rural Industrial aesthetic, Parking Non-Stop celebrated
Alan's birthday with a visit to the derelict brickworks on the remote
northern coast of Anglesey, where they used various pieces of rusting
machinery to generate some interesting sounds and rhythms.

Alan and
Zoë gave a live preview of the new Parking Non-Stop extended
work Formula For A New City at the Green Man festival, near Hay-On-Wye.
Dewi was unable to participate as he was performing Club Luz, his
collaboration with performance artist Eddie Ladd elsewhere

Parking Non-Stop performed
at the Ars Poetica festival at Studio 12 in the Slovak capital
where they were joined on stage by the noted Slovak actress Tana Pauhofova,
who performed Slovak versions of Zoë's
texts, as translated by the poet Martin Solotruk. Visual contributions
were provided in the form of digital projections by the graphic artist
Jan Sicko. Dewi was again unable to appear at the event due to a clashing
performance of his Club Luz theatre work in Ljubljana, but made a virtual
appearance via the wonders of modern technology

Domov Slovenskych
Spisovatelov, Budmerice, Slovakia
2/10/04

Whilst in Slovakia for
the festival, Alan & Zoë
stayed at the Domov Slovenskych
Spisovatelov, a converted hunting manor-house in the Lindava forest
at Budmerice, given over to writers during the communist period. Whilst
wandering through the extensive forest grounds, they chanced upon and
recorded three woodpeckers performing an intricate rhythm, which was
subsequently used as the basis of a Parking Non-Stop piece.

A collaborative work was
also recorded with Austrian writer and electronic musician Lale Rodgarkia-Dara
in her temporary recording studio, set up in the basement of the Domov.

Parking Non-Stop
took part in the "A Taste Of Ethania" event at Holyhead's
Ucheldre centre. Oddly, it was the third time they had appeared at the
venue, despite very rarely appearing live.

Koffeehaus
Sowohlalsauch, Kollwitzstrasse, Berlin
2/11/04

A
third visit to the Prenzlauerburg bar where Parking Non-Stop met the Earl
& Duke of Leitmoritz in 2000 yielded a recording of metallic clanks
and traffic, courtesy of the gas cylinder delivery man. The Earl &
Duke was nowhere to be found.